Overreaching Quotes

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

I think a lot of people overthink things.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Charging a reporter with trespassing and interfering with a police officer when he was just doing his job is outrageous. This latest action represents contemptable overreaching by prosecutors who seem to have no regard for the role of journalists seeking to cover a major story and following normal practice.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I can't stand people who try too hard.

Genius is knowing where to stop.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

He who is content with a moderate victory is always most successful; for those who would more than conquer, commonly lose.